The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker

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randycupertino•about 4 hours ago

NY Mag looooves these status-anxiety, class warfare social commentary "what's in and what's out" style articles. It's their favorite genre and catnip to their social-climbing Yuppie core reader audience.

doruktt•about 3 hours ago

This is one of the main reasons behind all of the technological inventions applied to labour and production: to homogenize the work, remove artisanal knowledge from the worker and add it to the organic capital of industry and last but not least remove the bargaining power of the workers.

wazoox•about 2 hours ago

Yup. Good ol' Karl Marx called this process proletarianisation.

atoav•about 4 hours ago

I wonder whether this is what gets tech workers to finally see the reason for unions to exist?

thedevilslawyer•about 4 hours ago

This will not work until unions deal with the reality of globalization, and push to form a worldwide union, which ensures compensation has no more than 2x difference based on one's country. This is the multiplier where people will not want to transfer work for cost vs skill level.

This is unpalatable to HCOL engineers, because their pay will significantly compress in this union to support the growth of compensation of similarly skilled LCOL regions/countries.

QED: Unions will not happen.

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The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker

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